I just picjked up my cz lux 9.3x62 but it has a damn plastic floorplate, follower and floor plate frame

Can this be changed out, I have heard of others doing this, and who do I contact. Also will they do this for an Aussie cz owner .

Other than that the rifle is great !! has nice wood, double cross bolting and is light and points really nice.

I am shattered thre is plastic on my beloved cz's

[ 08-19-2003, 07:49: Message edited by: PC ]

just dont leave it in your car, and maybe it wont crack or melt. Gotta love that plastic on new firearms. I got a new Merkel k1 and it has a lightweight plastic pushbutton for forend release. I just bet that will last a hundred years!!! new guns will never age and mellow like the older ones. the damn MBA's are running the design departments. Can anyone tell me they would rather have plastic parts on the action? synthetic stocks, OK, but the action adn trigger plates? wait until it gets 30 below and the things just break and get brittle.

The tried and true horn trigger guards and heel plates were bullet proof, nearly. except to rodents and carpet moths.

sorry about your reality check.

That's too bad to read. That must explain why CZ's sell so cheap.

PC _ If I'm not mistaking the rifles produced in 1999 or before used the plastic floorplates and the ones produced after had steel floorplates but plastic followers. I contacted Mike at CZ-USA and he swaped me out, metal for plastic on two CZs, both of them fullstocks. I don't know about in Australia, but I will try to find out. To the fellow who made the comment about plastic and that must be the reason why CZ can sell rifles to cheap, get a reality check fella. We're talking a plastic floorplate and follower in a rifle that is a good deal less expensive than a Remington or Winchester. If plastic was all it took to lower the price of a rifle by say $150, and it was just a floorplate and follower, then you can darn well bet other rifle makers would be doing it now. I don't know how CZ can produce a rifle that shoots as well as they do, look as good as they look and cost as little as they do, for what they do cost, but they do. Plastic or no, they are the best quality deal going right now in rifles. Tom Purdom

Sorry to hear about the plastic parts. Sounds like it might be an easy fix though.

Post pictures, let us see your new toy.

David

Thomas Purdom is correct.

Rifles made in 1999 and before had the plastic floor plate and follower.

Contact Mike at CZ in Kansas City, MO and they will swap the plastic for steel. All post '99 CZ's have steel.

They did on a 550 FS in 7x57 for me about six months ago.

Thanks Rick and Thomas,

I will email him off there website.

Other than that bit of plastic the rifle is one supurb looking specimen.

I have no digital camera but I will Take a photo of it with my missus camera and have it scanned to cd. Will be a couple of weeks though.

I have just e-mailed Mike at CZ It will be interesting to see if they help someone who lives in Australia

[ 08-19-2003, 16:48: Message edited by: PC ]

Forgive me for being dumb on this, but what is a floor plate and follower?? I have a CZ made befor 99 and I can notfind anything plastic on it. Maybe it would help if I knew what I was looking for.

The floorplate is the bottom of the fixed mag where you dump the shells out of and the follower is the thing that pushs each cartridge up (you see it in there when you pull the bolt back).

Hope that helps

I looked at mine and if I'm looking at the right thing my floor plate is metal. now the thing that sets on top of the spring inside the mag well is plastic.

I recivean e-mail back from Mike at CZ and he said he does offer replacement parts Plastic for steel but only for US customers. He will not ship outside the US

How else can I go about this

[ 08-20-2003, 01:45: Message edited by: PC ]

PC,

Easy. Find somebody in the U.S. that you can trust, give them the money and then have them buy the parts you need from Mike of CZ. Of course, once that is done, the person you gave the money to, can then ship you the parts.

Good luck.

Looking forward to seeing a picture or two of your new rifle.

PC,
CZ firearms are imported by Olin Australia aren't they? Have you tried them for the steel parts (not holding my breath)? Will CZ USA ship to Olin Australia? Try all the options otherwise a "gift" from the States is in order.
Con

[ 08-20-2003, 10:52: Message edited by: Con ]

PC

If I was you I would check with Olin and find out if the other 3 CZs they have in that calibre have plastic floor plates and follower. Maybe it was only yours! If that`s the case you maybe able to persuade them to exchange it.

PC

Further to the above, take a look at Cz` web site www.czub.cz and you will find a contact telephone number and email address.

I would contact them directly and voice your displeasure politely and see if they cannot help you.

I will get my dealer to phone Olin Australia first and see where that gets me, somehow I doubt that they will help.

I have taken a fellow forum member up on the offer of swapping out the parts for me. It is a free service from Mike at CZ USA from all accounts.

Plastic or no plastic, Cz rifles are hard to beat for the price.

Don't get me wrong I still love it. It is a sensational looking rifle, I will be trying to get a a pair of warne fixed mounts to work with a leupold 2-7x32. Usually I do not have a lot of luck with warnes and varibales infact I have had no luck to date !! Power ring won't turn with warnes or talley's on two different leupolds spread actross 3 cz rifles, even not on the catual rifle they don't work, I will have to fork out for another fixed scope I think, but we will wait and see.